Detailed 3D images of the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered help scientists predict when tardigrades evolved their near-indestructibility — a trait that might have helped them survive ...

In particular, comparisons between the amber fossils and modern tardigrades allowed the team to also determine that at least two separate groups of water bears evolved cryptobiosis at distant ...

Fossilized within the ancient tree resin that forms today’s amber, the two tardigrades had been waiting decades for a good look. Paleontologists could barely make out the B. leggi fossil in the ...

“Lots of tardigrade folks have pondered these fossils over the last 60 years, but there was a hard limit to how much could be gleaned because the tardigrades were really small and a bit obscured ...

There are only four known tardigrade fossils. All are preserved in amber, including two inside a pebble that was found in Canada in 1940 and dates from 84 million to 72 million years ago.

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis Aiming lasers on fossilized tardigrades frozen in amber, scientists gained clues into their survival tactics By Matthew Rozsa ...

The pair will also continue to employ the technology to study other tardigrades fossils trapped in amber. More information: Marc A. Mapalo et al, A tardigrade in Dominican amber, Proceedings of the ...

Researchers used confocal laser microscopy to classify two previously discovered tardigrade fossils, identifying one as a new species. Tardigrades are eight-legged micro-animals believed to have ...

Some tardigrade fossils have turned up—including one 16-million-year-old tardigrade encased in amber—but it will take a multidisciplinary combination of paleozoology, genetic analysis, and ...

Tardigrades are well-known for being nearly indestructible. Now, scientists have reanalyzed ancient, amber-encased fossils, revealing when the super-tough critters may have first got the ability ...

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed in new fossil analysis. Story by Matthew Rozsa • 3mo. A t first glance, the microscopic creatures known as tardigrades don't appear that hardy.